Poor old Microsoft. Even Samsung's Bada smartphone OS is more popular than yours.
So the latest figures from market watcher Gartner reveal. In Q3, just under 2.5m Bada smartphones shipped around the globe, it said today.
But only fractionally more than 1.7m handsets with a Microsoft OS shipped during the same period.
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not being first might suit apple

there is little for them to be gained by flooding the market with cheap iphones. They have repeatedly said themselves that their image and perceived value is their most valuble asset and that includes desirability though scarcity.

Re: not being first might suit apple

With the release of Android 4 code I think there will soon be a bunch of other players jumping in the ice cream sandwich to up the Android share even further. It also likely means the Cyanogen folks are already in process.

Out of curiosity...

I know next to nothing about Bada, but doesn't an OS need to have an ecosystem to really thrive in the coming years? Unquestionably, iOS is the champ and Android not far behind, but seems the next contender/pretender to the throne would most likely be Microsoft with its decent and growing stable of apps and developer tools. Does Bada have this? And can it be pushed into European/North American markets? I'm not judging, just asking for opinions on this.

I thought...

El-Reg savours tormenting Apple's rivals

In its Apple worshipping, El-Reg (like most of the other media) loves to poke fun at Apple's compeition, especially Microsoft. why? because by subtle and not so subtle innuendoes, the Apple free-mason media hopes to extinguish such competition before it threatens Apple's domination, and it bends over backwards to diss Microsoft, cos WinPho looks like a force to be reckoned with and whatsmore, it makes iOS UI look jurassic and heaven forbid, Applistas just can't use the littany of "copying of Apple".

In its messianic agenda, El-Reg is sloppy with facts, after all, what shrinks is Microsoft Mobile, it''s like comparing the sales of iPod Classic with modern competing media-players. But El-Reg glosses it (or rather "tars-it") lumping WinPho with WinMo, even if it is clearly labelled on the chart.

What worries Apple loving journo is that WinPho is a clear riser, witness the recent surveys of developers where WinPho has been rising faster than any other OS and clearly has the critical mass (no word, hush!) that together with Microsoft's muscle and standardised development environment and an apparent hit that Nokia's 800 is, may mean, OMG, that Apple is not gonna "iPodise" the mobile phones market...where is the world coming too...

I wonder what hardware (and software) does the writer use in his private life...watch the first 5 minutes of Simpsons Mypods and Broomsticks episode for a parody of Apple worshippers